Elementary students on our Piedmont campus worked together to write a classroom agreement. They based it on the core value of the school: respect, respect of others, of oneself, and of the environment. The dictionary proved very helpful in writing the agreement and there was a lot of great discussion. Here are the values and virtues they chose;

Tolerance, teamwork, thankfulness, try, truth, trust

Respect, responsibility, reaction, rules

Intelligence, individual, improving, independence

Self-motivation, safety, self-control, self-independence

The classroom agreement was also a group effort. Here is what the students wrote: